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AMD’s new Epyc server CPUs aim to restore lost market share in the highly lucrative data center business. Epyc CPUs are specifically designed to drive multiple GPUs from a single socket to facilitate deep learning workloads.

AMD may be planning a new 32-core server CPU once Zen launches — but whether that’s a good thing or not depends on whether its an Intel bunker buster, or an attempt to compensate for weak per-core performance. Right now, it could be either.

Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the standard E5 LGA2011 socket, but the integrated FPGA will allow each chip to be customized to specific workloads. This move is almost certainly intended to make Intel-x86 a better all-round platform for a wider variety of workloads, and to dissuade customers from switching to GPGPU accelerators from the likes of Nvidia.

More than 60% of all internet-capable devices, from PCs to phones to gaming consoles, interact with a Google server somehow in an average day, which means that Google accounts for 25% of all internet traffic.

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